American Idol 7 - Hollywood Week anticlimax

The 2-hours long episode rates higher this time but to most fans who follow the show as well as other fans blog, we all already know the Top 24 much earlier (even though it was with the Live via Satellite icon). Last night show was just to verified if the leaked was correct.

Led by a two-hour installment of the now Hollywood-based American Idol, dominant Fox beat the four competing networks combined by 5.26 million viewers and 56 percent among adults 18-49. American Idol scored a typically massive 29.87 million viewers and a 12.2 rating/29 share among adults 18-49, building in each half-hour as follows:

American Idol
8:00 p.m. Viewers: 26.17 million, A18-49: 10.6/27
8:30 p.m. Viewers: 29.76 million, A18-49: 12.1/29
9:00 p.m. Viewers: 31.61 million, A18-49: 13.0/30
9:30 p.m. Viewers: 31.95 million, A18-49: 13.3/30

Full report by an avid viewer and here’s a better blog with YouTube videos.